The World - News from Dec. 6, 1988
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South Africa plans to enlarge Soweto, the country’s largest black township, by about 31,000 acres. The land, southwest of Johannesburg, is to be developed by the government and private builders for housing, agriculture and light industry, the Ministry of Constitutional Development said. About 2 million people live in Soweto, a center of protest against the white-led government.
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